Curiosity in Practice
One of the tips that security professionals love to give is to use a VPN on public wifi networks. This is great advice and (I personally like PrivateInternetAccess and NordVPN). Recently I noticed nike.com blocks traffic from TOR and VPN providers: That got me wondering what other websites were blocking traffic from these sources so I decided to … Read more
I had a 2014 Dell Chromebook 11 I was not doing anything so I decided to turn it into a stand alone Kali box using the Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment. The installation steps are pretty simple: Add a l33t hacker sticker: Enable Developer Mode (this will wipe the device). Login and download the latest crouton. Access … Read more
A picture started floating around the internet of Mark Zuckerberg holding an Instagram cutout: People almost instantly started to notice that his webcam and mic were taped over. While Mark Zuckerberg isnt exactly known for having great security practices, all his social media passwords were Dadada. This started a discussion in the office if someone … Read more
While rebuilding my iPad this weekend I noticed that I could name it an emoji. So I named my iPad 📱(U+1F4F1): While I don’t have any problem using the iPad it basically makes it unreachable on the network via hostname. From there I renamed all of my lab machines emojis. Mostly variations of 💩 (U+1F4A9) because I … Read more
Earlier today I ran across this blog post on hijacking windows .lnk file so I decided to build out and test a full POC for it using Windows 8.1. To reproduce this just copy these 7 lines into powershell and ctrl+c now runs calc.exe instead of copying your text: https://gist.github.com/jgamblin/4aa897a2cca6912eeea96a12d73d8cd6 For extra jerkiness this will shutdown a windows … Read more